Longton House Number 33 And Attached Front Area Wall And Gate Piers

KEYNSHAM

ST6568 HIGH STREET 739-1/4/50 (East side) 19/06/75 No.33 and attached front area wall and gate piers (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET (East side) No.33 Midland Bank)

GV II

Formerly known as: Longton House HIGH STREET. Attached house, school, bank, now offices with low wall and piers adjoining. Early C19, late C19 school. Colourwashed render, ashlar copings, pantile roof and rendered end stacks; rubble wall with ashlar corners and gate piers. PLAN: double-depth plan. EXTERIOR: 2-storey; 3-window range. West front with plinth, cornice and blind parapet. Windows have sills and are mid C19 plate-glass sashes with margin glazing and horns. Central round-arched doorway with open pediment on brackets, 6-panel door and radial fanlight; further doorway to left-hand end with identical doorcase and C20 door and fanlight. INTERIOR: nothing survives inside either of the original room layout or any architectural features of note. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: attached low wall encloses front area, with short capped corners and gate piers. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally called Longton House, the building served as a ladies' school in the late C19 and then a mixed school until 1910. (Lowe B and Whitehead M: The Changing Face of Keynsham in Old Photographs: Stroud: 1994-: 41).

Listing NGR: ST6543168707